Don Patterson, Ray Abrams, La Verne Harding and Paul J. Smith were the credited animators at the Walter Lantz studio when it returned to ope...

We all know Fred William Brunish (named for his father and grandfather, incidentally) was a background artist for Walter Lantz and also made...

The Mad Hatter (1948) was the second cartoon by the Walter Lantz studio released by United Artists. Ken O’Brien and Freddie Moore from Dis...

Woody Woodpecker made several Western pictures and the first came while Walter Lantz was releasing through United Artists. Fred Brunish pro...

A panorama shot of a golf course by Fred Brunish opens the 1952 cartoon Woodpecker in the Rough . Brunish died on June 25, 1952, nine day...

Background artist Fred Brunish plants an inside gag in the Woody Woodpecker cartoon The Coo Coo Bird (1947). Bugs Hardaway and Milt Schaff...

Pantry Panic (1941) was made by the Walter Lantz studio about the time background artist Ed Kiechle left to work on the main Universal lot....

Fred Brunish (1902-1952) was Walter Lantz’s sole background artist in the last half of the ‘40s and into the early ‘50s; at least he was the...

Here’s some more of Fred Brunish’s work, this time of the Wally Walrus mansion in “Wacky-Bye Baby,” a 1948 cartoon made during Walter Lantz’...